SMall Business Server 2003 Help!?

Question

Hi,
I've nearly finished setting this up for my office but i need some help in getting the email to work. i've bought a domain name for my business web site but i need to be able to get email from other people, my friend told me i needed a domain name for it to work? can anybody give me some information about setting this up? i'm fairly computer literate but i think i need an idiots guide for this.

thanks.

Answer 1

You've asked a technical question that requires more than a simple "just do this" on a web site that was either poorly designed OR never intended to have such a question asked on it. I suggest you ask this question again on site that encourages an ongoing dialog to help resolve your issue.



In short, yes, you need to register a domain name - I use www.active-domain.com but I know many people like Network Solutions, Register.com, GoDaddy.com and others. In the end, it doesn't really matter much who you use.



Once you have the domain, you need to get a static IP address from your ISP (A dynamic IP address can be used, but many other ISPs look at mail originating from dynamic addresses and AUTOMATICALLY classify it as spam (Verizon does this)). You also need to make sure that your ISP does NOT block port 25 (many do; many of those will unblock it upon request)).



Then you need to configure the DNS settings for your domain, specifing an "A" record for your public IP address (So your Public IP matches, FOR EXAMPLE, mail.yourdomain.com to your ISP assigned public static IP address). Once the "A" record is configured, you need to configure an MX record (as in Mail eXchanger). This record involves entering the "name" you assigned to the A record (following the example, mail.yourdomain.com) and a priority (you COULD have more than one mail server - the priority is a number - the lower the number the higher the priority).



This "points" the DNS information to your SBS server for sending and recieving e-mail. Be sure to run the Internet Connection Wizard to properly setup SBS to receive e-mail for your domain - if it's not properly configured, it will never deliver email messages to your inboxes nor will it ever send a message to the sender that the message was essentially lost.



This is one of those things that you might well want to HIRE A CONSULTANT for. It's nice you know computers ok... but SBS is pretty particular about how it's setup. If you set it up correctly, it works great... if you screw it up because you THOUGHT you knew what you were doing, you could be in trouble. (I speak from experience - I know what I'm doing with Windows Server... but SBS is DIFFERENT and my first setup I screwed up significantly because I didn't understand the way SBS needs to be setup and managed).

Answer 2

Ok.. you have a domain. that's good.



there's alot to do and alot of questions to be answered for email to work.



1. if you have a website and its hosted by a third party, do they provide email as well?

2. If not... are you going to use the SBS 2003 exchange server for email?

3. do you have internet at the office and if so... do you have a firewall device?

4. where is your domain's Name service being hosted?



If you are planning to do it all at your site... you need.



1. Internet connection to a router.

2. A Firewall device like sonicwall with TCP/IP port 25 and 80 passed through to your email and webserver.

3. Your ISP providing a name service for your domain

4. a SBS 2003 server with Exchange and IIS configured for web services, DNS configured, WINS configured, DHCP configured, file and printer sharing

5. Windows workstations configured with DHCP for automatic IP addressing, Outlook pointing towards your SBS2003 server for email and a default route to your firewall to provide internet browsing.



If you are planning a third party to host the website and email, you only need the internet router with all incoming ports blocked and all normall outgoing ports enabled. Your SBS2003 server would provide DHCP, DNS, WINS and file/printer sharing. You set up your workstations's outlook to point to the third party's email server. You could still use the exchange server on the SBS2003 box and have it eturn the email from the third party server to yours.



This of course is over simplified. there's alot involved and it takes some planning and time to implement. Any more.. and I'll have to charge you though! :-)

Answer 3

there is not any distinction. you're speaking on the subject of the right comparable working gadget. it is complicated to tell for particular out of your question, yet i think of you're getting hung up on the licensing function (consistent with person vs consistent with gadget). SBS comes with 5, that are effectively twin licenses. once you upload new licenses, it is consistent with person or consistent with gadget. in case you have no longer finished this till now, that's fairly complicated. the sole concern could be in case you acquire terminal amenities licenses, that are an entire seperate class. SBS can not use terminal amenities, so a TS license won't even load. SBS is meant to be fairly trouble-free. it is not any longer. whilst you're turning out to be hung up on the licensing.... You going to have an extremely, fairly frustrating time. SBS is definitely VERY finicky. so far, we've over 30 "fixes" to a regular SBS set up that are no longer even in Microsoft's documentation; all of which we've got here across had to ward off blunders messages, loss of function, etc. because of the fact the server is definitely used. development and setting up computers isn't something like a server. pc's merely use DNS, DHCP, RRAS, etc. computers anticipate those amenities are configured wisely. Servers configure all of that. you are going to could configure a variety of of amenities you took with no attention with a working laptop or pc. It takes a gifted structures engineer a minimum of 10 hours to configure a SBS server, whilst he knows precisely what he's doing. you have been exceeded a job way previous your ability. it is like telling a guy to fly a 747 because of the fact he's geared up 25 kind airplanes. do no longer take the blame in this one, guy. without delay up, you have have been given to call a expert, or a minimum of ask for some severe help. or you are the only that's going to look undesirable.

Answer 4

you need pop3 and smtp installed on your server. it comes with SBS2003. how many clients do you have? you need a CNAME for your mail.



such as: pop3.domain.com for mail coming in

and smtp.domain.com for mail going out

and: www.domain.com for http.



point to the pop3 and smtp server for the clients mail app.